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l PASQUALE MARTOCCI, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

l lllMLIL` AND PACKAGE COLLECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 29, 1908.

Application filed February 18, 1908. Serial No. 416,477. n

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PASQUALE MARToocr, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county ofNew York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Mail and Package Collectors, of which the following is a speci-y following specification, set forth in thel claims and illustrated in the drawings where: I ..1

v Figure 1 is a cross sectional view through the subway and a deposit box. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view through same. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the subway. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a motor and car. Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view through same. collection box door and its counterweights.

While the device is shown as being operated in a subway it is obvious that it may be confined to a'tube to collect packages about a building or be operated in the open.

The subway is provided with four tracks 6, 7 8 and 9 for steadying the cars and retaining them in their proper position and two of these tracks, 8 and 9 may be used as elec.- trical` conductors to furnish the current for the motor 10. The motor car 11 is also provided with the gear wheels 12 and 13 each on a separate shaft and these shafts also carry gear wheels 14 and 15 which are driven by the wheels 16 and 17 on a shaft 18 which is given motion by the motor through the wheels 19- and 20. By the arrangement of these wheels it will be seen that the wheels 14 and 16 drivethe wheel 12 at a much greater speed than the wheels 15 and 17 drive the wheel 13 and as these Wheels 12 and 13.pro

pel the car they must be provided with separate means for assisting the propulsion. This is accomplished by the tracks 21 and 22 which are rack bars in which these propelling wheels mesh, the track 21 running from one Fig. 6 is a plan view ofthel 22 is provided at the station or at points where it is desired to reduce the speed, This arrangement enables the car to proceed at its lutmost speed from one station to the other but while passing the collecting point the speed is greatly reduced to allow the parcels to drop in the cars following the motor.

` At the collecting point a lever 23 is pivotedl in an apartment 24 adjacent to the subway Aand one end 25 of this lever projects beyond the wall of the subway and in the path of the blocks 26 on that side of the collecting car which swing the lever on its pivot and causes' it to draw upon the rope 27 which passes aroundpulleys 28 and connects with a door 29 vat thelower end ofthe collecting box 30. This door 29 is normally closed by a spring 31 and retains all the Vmail or parcels until a loading station to the other while the track train passes and the lever 23 is struck by the car when the door is opened and the mail drops into passing car. During this operation the car is on the rack 22 and the wheel 13 is propelling it at a slow rate of speed. As soon as the car leaves this track and comes under the influence of the rail 21 and the wheel 12 its speed increases.

`The collecting car 32 is made in sections Which are connected by the pivots 33 and the s aces between the sides are lled with liexiblle material 34 such as canvas so that the car may easily turn a corner. The rollers 8 and 9 are for the same purpose swiveled and 'speed at the collecting station insures the deosit of packages in the collecting car without oss of same.

Itis obvious that minor modifications may be resorted to in the arrangement and construction of the parts.

In case tthat the spring 31 proves insuflicient to hold the door in its closed position, a rope 35 is secured to each side of the door 29 and passes over pulleys 36 and carries at its other end a weight 37 to keep the door.

closed and withstand the weight of lthe parcels deposited in the box.

To support and guide the motor and collection cars on the rails they are provided with rollers 38 which may be swiveled,

especially'those for the upper and lower rails, so that the cars may turn the curves with ease.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a mail and package collector, the combination with supporting and guide rails of cars adapted to run on the rails and having a motor, motor driven wheels operating at different speed, and members alternately engaging the motor driven wheels to ellect a variation of the speed of the cars at predetermined points.

2. In a mail and package collector, the combination with supporting and guide rails of cars with a motor adapted to run on the rails, motor driven wheels operating at dif'- ferent speeds, delivery doors arranged at intervals, and means for alternate engagement with the dillerently speeded motor driven wheels for varying the speed of the cars at points where the delivery doors are located.

3. In a mail and package collector, the combination with rack bars, of supporting rails, a motor car, gear wheels adapted to move at different speeds for engaging the rack bars and means on the motor car for driving the gear wheels.

4. Ina mail and package collector, the combination with guide and supporting rails,

of collecting boxes with bottom doors, rack bars at one side of the supporting rails and between the boxes, rack bars at the other side of the rails between the interval of the oppw site rails, a motor car, differently speeded gears for the two rack bars, motive means for the gears, a collecting car, and means operated by the collecting car for opening the door of the collecting boxes.

5. In a mail and package collector, the combination with guide and supporting rails, of' staggered rack rails on each side el' the supporting rail, gear wheels engaging one or the other of the staggered rails, a motor driving the gear wheels, means connected with A the motor for driving the gear wheels at dife ferent rates of speed, collecting boxes, downwardly opening doors from the boxes, levers controlling the doors and projecting touf'ards the tracks, collecting cars made in sections and having collapsible sides, and means on the cars for operating the levers to open the doors.

In testimony whereof, I alllx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

PASQUALE MARTOCCI.

Witnesses JAMES F. DUHAMEL, MAE W. CLINTON. 

